The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 2 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with one institution being included for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 188 articles, total expenditure amounts to 406,318€ and the average fee is 2,161€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- HCL - Hospices civils de Lyon
- Université de Limoges (new)
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 52 | 104268 | 2005 |
| Springer Nature | 39 | 99047 | 2540 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 29 | 75056 | 2588 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 15 | 5907 | 394 |
| Elsevier BV | 14 | 37368 | 2669 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 13363 | 2227 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 12364 | 2473 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 8951 | 1790 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 10683 | 2671 |
| BMJ | 3 | 5637 | 1879 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 7813 | 2604 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 5021 | 2510 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 2 | 7219 | 3610 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1303 | 1303 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 2813 | 2813 |
| American Thoracic Society | 1 | 2625 | 2625 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 478 | 478 |
| IEEE | 1 | 1641 | 1641 |
| Medical Journals Sweden AB | 1 | 1600 | 1600 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1822 | 1822 |
| Western Journal of Emergency Medicine | 1 | 938 | 938 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
